Beast Tribe For Gatherers, Please!

I\\'m not sure where else to put this so I\\'m going to drop it in here.

Sorry if it\\'s in the wrong place!

So far throughout my adventures as a FSH, BTN, and a much lesser extent MNR I\\'ve noticed we really don\\'t get much.

We have our main quest line and then we\\'re an after thought to simple supply crafter\\'s with materials.

I would like to have a Gatherer Beast Tribe!

The fishing Blue Kojin are a perfect opportunity and I\\'m mostly just tired of some of my favorite classes being treated as second class, well, classes.

I\\'m not going to make any grandiose argument or demands.

Just the simple request.

If anyone else wants to add on, please, feel free to do so!

When I was first unlocking the ARR tribes, I genuinely expected the kobolds to be basically this. A whole beast race of diggers, and no mining to do for them.

I levelled the Ixal tribe and noticed they would occasionally send me to fish, mine, or chop(?) stuff for them.

I was a little frustrated when even in Heavensward they didn't add a gathering tribe but, instead, another for crafters.

I love my crafting friends as they are my biggest clients but I want some love, too! ;-;

(For SB it seems like the Ananta(?) will be the crafting tribe as during the MSQ they threw up their crafting ability many times.

I think the main reason the crafters got a tribe and not gatherers is because it costs money/time to get the mats to level crafting, wheras with gathering you can literally just go out and smack nodes all day long for free (except repair costs).

I support having a beast tribe gathering line. Just for the fact none of the others are related.

I will also suggest that doing the Levequests is an incredibly fast way to level gathering though. Stocked up with XP boosting scrolls from your GC and Adventurer squadron missions, I've done maybe.. 20+ altogether and I'm 69 mining already from 60 at SB release.

Tbh, yeah, after the gathering leve buff not long ago, leves are a completely valid method to level. Prior to that, though, it was pretty tedious.

Before Lv60, Grand Company once per day will get your gatherers up in a respectable amount of time, in fact you will level far faster than you would your crafting classes unless you are really grinding away at it.

There's also leves and as someone said, leves work pretty good too. There's also just plain grinding away. FSH in particular is rather easy to level because dude, at Lv60 I'm getting 20k, 30k per fish. If I pull up an HQ, that's an easy 60k. It really doesn't take that long; I put in 20 minutes and had at least 15-20% of a levelup. Bait is cheap, at like 1k gil for 99 and occasionally you'll have to move to another spot, but I can think of at least 5 spots that give my 62 FSH decent XP, easily enough for me to fish for hours.

On the MIN/BTN side, you get 7-8k XP per whack of any Lv61+ item. You're talking ~600-650 whacks. That sounds like a lot until you remember that you can do 8 in about 30 seconds and then another 8 about 30-60 seconds later, so 16 in about 90 seconds. It would take you ~62 minutes to gain a levelup at this rate.

Meanwhile, Moogles at Lv59 take three IRL DAYS to give you 1 levelup because of the 3 per day limit.